Pauli-Lubanski, supertwistors, and the superspinning particle

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)151zbMATH Open1380.81382arXiv1601.05294OpenAlexW3104777816MaRDI QIDQ683272FDOQ683272

Authors: Alex S. Arvanitakis, Luca Mezincescu, Paul Kingsley Townsend 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a novel construction of the super-Pauli-Lubanski pseudo-vector for 4D supersymmetry and show how it arises naturally from the spin-shell constraints in the supertwistor formulation of superparticle dynamics. We illustrate this result in the context of a simple classical action for a "superspinning particle" of superspin 1/2. We then use an Sl(2;K)-spinor formalism for K=R,C,H to unify our 4D results with previous results for 3D and 6D (super)Pauli-Lubanski tensors.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05294

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zbMATH Keywords

extended supersymmetrysuperspacesPauli-Lubanski pseudo-vectorsupertwistor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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